Green questions to ask when buying
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"and some fell on stoney ground"
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Sic transit gloria mundi
Gloria was ill in the van on Monday
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As I’ll be in the market for a new ‘van in a few months time, I’ll certainly be asking the dealer what the manufacturers environmental policy is, something I’d not considered before your post, so thanks for that 👍
As the saying goes, “Every Little helps”, although I’m not holding my breath.
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Vehicle makers are at last staggering in the direction of working on such developments,
I think staggering is about right.! Recent development in things like Solar Panels and LED lighting took quite a time to be incorporated fully into the modern van and IMHO, the designers are normally about 5 yrs behind the cutting edge techs and innovations. We still have manufacturers boasting 100w Solar Panels- WOW. where if they offered 150w, folk might start to realise that capturing sunlight for the batteries actually works to a point where fossil fuels do not have to be burned to supply electricity! Just a thought. I have to agree that caravanning is not the greenest of activities but much can be done to counter the ‘pollution ‘ caused. The OP touched on a good point and I believe everything that can be done to avoid harming our environment should be done. However, I am not a believer in the great global warming scam either. Just another way of getting taxes out of us- but that’s a debate for another day!
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sorry to have to correct you but that is a bedford,(not made by ford but does have a bed!)
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Truthfully not a single one of em have style whatever their real names are. I reckon folk loved em back in the day, still do too. Not me for sure☹️
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Just seen yours, Easy. It could be the same one😃
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I think they all look great, would love to turn up at a club site in one. Can you still buy one?
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Where's TDA? It looks like hers.
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Now that is quite something, Husky 👍🏻👍🏻
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Oh yes! This was our first car when we got married! We went on honeymoon with our Rottweiler in the back and toured all over Northumberland. Morris Suntor Caravette, absolute classic. Very ingenious inside, the seats all folded to make a double bed, although someone (not me!) had to sleep with their feet under the steering wheel. It had a brilliant two ring hob and grill, a tiny sink, and a small little wardrobe in the back. We always kept a gallon of petrol in a can under the wardrobe floor, as the tank had a tiny leak. It had a starting handle as well, so didn’t matter if battery went flat! We always took a small suitcase that lived on the shelf when the roof was up. It got a bit cosy when we got an Airedale puppy as well, but we managed. They were rare at the time we had ours, even rarer now and go for a lot of money. We did toy with idea of trying to find one, but we aren’t as lithe and supple as we once were! We used it as an everyday car for a few years, as well as holidays. I learned to drive in it, hated the column change. We used to gaze longingly at Romahomes, and think, “all that space”🤣
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That’s beautiful.
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Nah, it's a butterfly.
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I also remember the Commer vans, Commer was the commercial arm of Routes Group who did the Hillman Minx and Imp. If ever you are near Marquis South Yorkshire near to Sheffield, there is an old but pristine Autosleeper Commer in their show room... It's where we bought our van from. We've spent many an unhappy hour there but that's a long story...
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I dunno. Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
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Thanks Merve and others who've stuck with the original topic! And we'll have to agree to differ on the climate change issue, Merve - though it is mis-named as global warming.
I'm just regretful that my original post seems to have been taken as a sort of adversarial provocation. Since we're not buying a new van, we're not in a position to influence manufacturers of those. We'll continue to ask the makers of other things about their design, though, and we will be looking to replace my wife's 2002 car in the next year or so, so plenty of research and questions round that.
As Merve said, makers are staggering along rather behind the edge of technology in many ways, so a little prodding to improve things for us all, by those whose wallets are about to open, seemed like a good idea.
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